Subject |
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine |
Specific subject area |
An approach to disease control of grazing cattle in haor areas |
Type of data |
Graph, figure, table |
How data were acquired |
Data sets were obtained focusing on history, clinical (cardinal) signs for diagnosis of FMD. Moreover, data were collected through interviews with respondents from infected cattle raising by haor livelihoods. |
Data format |
Raw and analyzed |
Parameters for data collection |
The target population was cattle in the outbreak area. Cases of FMD were diagnosed entirely based on clinical signs [1,2]. Associations between FMD cases and risk factors were examined. Animal demography, spatial, and seasonal influences were considered for data collection. |
Description of data collection |
Investigation of clinical FMD in cattle was conducted at 10 villages from 4 unions of Sulla upazila from July, 2017 to June, 2018. The owners willingly visited the hospital with patients or veterinarian directly visited the owner's house to ensure the treatment of infected patients. Haor livelihoods were interviewed as well using a preformed questionnaire, and 1388 clinical cases of FMD data were documented in the record book. |
Data source location |
Upazila Veterinary Hospital, Upazila Livestock Office, Sulla upazila, Sunamganj, Bangladesh. |
Data accessibility |
All data are presented in this article including a supplementary file. |
Related research article |
D.M. Nyaguthii, B. Armson, P.M. Kitala, B. Sanz-Bernardo, A. Di Nardo, N.A. Lyons, Knowledge and risk factors for foot-and-mouth disease among small-scale dairy farmers in an endemic setting, Vet Res. 50 (2019) 1–12, http://doi:10.1186/s13567-019-0652-0 [3]. |